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Canon PIXMA MP640 Network ready Premium All-In-One Photo Printer

Canon PIXMA MP640 Network ready Premium All-In-One Photo Printer
From Canon

List Price: £179.00
Price: £156.90 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Delivery. Details

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Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #1429 in Consumer Electronics
  • Brand: Canon
  • Model: 3748B008AA
  • Released on: 2009-09-01
  • Dimensions: 19.40 pounds

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Manufacturer's Description

Premium Home or Office All-In-One with WiFi & Creative Media Handling
The PIXMA MP640 is a high performance easy to use, wireless All-in-One. With great Creative Media functions including, CD/DVD printing, dual paper trays and auto-duplex, the PIXMA MP640 will integrate seamlessly into any home or office network and achieve photo-lab quality results at speed. Ready to use straight out of the box, the PIXMA MP640 delivers bold black text, faithful copies, intelligent scanning and stand alone printing via memory cards, PictBridge and USB. With WiFi and Ethernet connectivity, as well as Single Ink tanks for added economy, the PIXMA MP640 is a first class multipurpose home and office photo printer.

Canon's FINE print technology delivers high speed photo-lab quality prints

Canon's FINE print technology delivers high
speed photo-lab quality prints.
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Incredible quality and detail
Canon’s class leading 1pl FINE print engine delivers an astonishing resolution of 9600 x 2400 dpi and a spectacular 20 second 10 x 15cm (4 x 6”) borderless photo print, enabling superior photo-lab quality output at speed. Canon’s High Performance 5 Single Ink System includes two blacks - one for printing crisp laser sharp text, the other for photos to give strong saturated blacks – delivering exceptional quality.  The single Ink System also means that, instead of replacing a multi-coloured cartridge and wasting unused ink, you only replace the colour ink tank that runs out, saving you money!

With Wi-Fi you can print from anywhere in the house or office.

With Wi-Fi you can print from anywhere
in the house or office.
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Print from any room in the house
You can print wirelessly from any Wi-Fi enabled computer in your house. The PIXMA MP640 also includes built-in Ethernet - a wired LAN interface that lets you connect seamlessly to a home or office network, so all the computers connected can share the power of PIXMA.

Save paper and be friendly to the environment
Print on both sides of the page without the hassle of turning the page manually using Built-In Auto Duplex Printing. This saves you time, money and paper – plus you’re helping the environment! To add to your options, 2-way paper feeding lets you load paper from the front cassette or rear tray, allowing use of both plain and photo paper at the same time. The printer will intelligently choose the right source for the printing task at hand. Manually switching from one tray to the other is also easy, while the self-operating output tray automatically opens when printing or copying so no more paper jams.

You’re not restricted to printing on paper either as the PIXMA MP640 comes complete with a special tray so you can print directly onto printable DVDs and CDs. This is ideal for small businesses who archive data using CDs/DVDs or use them to promote their services to customers; while at home its perfect for personalising your photo or music collections.

No need for a computer, print directly using the built in card slots or USB ports

No need for a computer, print directly using
the built in card slots or USB ports.
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Smart and simple interface
Don’t feel like using a computer? No problem. Just insert a compatible memory card into the easily accessible built-in card slots or connect via PictBridge to print directly from your digital camera, DV camcorder or camera phone. In addition you can print using the optional BU-30 wireless Bluetooth unit. The huge 7.5cm TFT display screen with Easy-Scroll Wheel lets you easily view, select and edit your images for simple computer-free printing. No downloading needed - just watch a slide show, pick your picture and print! Or maybe you need special paper like music sheets, graph paper or calendars in a hurry?  Choose the Template Printing option from the display screen and in seconds you’ll have the type of paper you need to ease all those homework worries.

Automatically scans just about anything
Exceptional high quality 4800dpi scanning is quick, simple and easy with integral Auto Scan Mode. It detects your original - photo, business card or letter – then automatically scans and saves the image with the appropriate settings, all without any prompt from you.



A world of advantages with Canon technology

Auto Photo Fix II helps you to get the right results every time.

Auto Photo Fix II helps you to get the right
results every time.
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Automatic correction to make every print perfect
Built-in Auto Photo Fix II technology with Red-Eye Removal and Multi-zone Exposure Correction is perfect for your home photo lab as it automatically fixes your photos at the printer, giving you flawless results without the need for a computer.

Red-eye occurs when using a photographic flash very close to the camera lens (as with most compact cameras) in ambient low light. Based on Canon’s market-leading intelligent camera technology Auto Photo Fix II will remove any red eye from your pictures as well as fix the brightness of unexposed areas of the photo with Multi-zone Exposure Correction. For instance, it will automatically brighten faces that are backlit and under-exposed and ensure more accurate skin tones to help you produce gorgeous images.

Easy-PhotoPrint EX enables quick and easy prints to be made from your photos

Easy-PhotoPrint EX enables quick and easy
prints to be made from your photos.
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Printing made easy with FREE in-box software
Exclusive to Canon, Easy-PhotoPrint is the fast and easy way to re-touch your digital photos and print them in a choice of size and layouts. It features an intuitive on-screen display for quick and easy image and paper selection, print-quality and layout. The Correct and Enhance button adds advanced photo correction and enhancement, using the same simple interface. The lab quality re-touching features available include: red eye correction, smooth facial lines and skin tone, face brightener, face sharpener and blemish remover.

Save paper with the NEW Easy-WebPrint software
This FREE in box new Easy-WebPrint EX software offers a range of options to help you organise the information you want to print from the internet - and avoid wasting paper printing the details you don’t need. These include Auto Clipping: print only the area of a web page you want; and Clip from Multiple pages: collect, combine and edit content from multiple web pages before printing. You can also print with an enlarged text size or reduce the size of the whole web page to fit it onto a single piece of paper for printing.

Canon Chromalife 100+ system creates lasting images for years to come.

Canon Chromalife 100+ system creates
lasting images for years to come.
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Beautiful, long-lasting photos
You can keep your precious photos bright and vibrant with the Canon ChromaLife100+ system. This unique combination of enhanced FINE print head technology and genuine Canon Chromalife 100+ inks with selected Canon photo papers lets you create beautiful photos that will last up to 300 years when stored in an archival-quality photo album.

To achieve the exceptional 9600 x 2400 color dpi resolution, Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) uses a patented print head with high precision nozzles, ejecting ink droplets as small as 1 picolitre in size (the smaller the ink drop the better quality the image).  

Stylish, compact and tidy
Both the Power cable and USB port are recessed inside the compact, stylish printer body so you can push the machine right back against the wall – saving space and keeping everything neat and tidy.

Box Contains

  • PIXMA MP640 All-In-One
  • Power cord
  • Print head
  • Ink tanks (PGI-520BK, CLI-521C, CLI-521M, CLI-521Y, CLI-521BK)
  • DVD/CD print tray
  • Multilingual set-up guides
  • Set-up software & user manual CD (including MP Navigator EX, Easy-PhotoPrint EX, CD-LabelPrint, Easy-WebPrint EX downloader)
  • Warranty sheet
  • Photo paper range leaflet
  • Sample PP-201 10x15cm (3 sheets)
  • MP-101 for head alignment
  • A4 (2 sheets)


  • Customer Reviews

    Makes Printing a Joy5
    What a great printer!

    Advantages:
    -Economical Ink Cartridges (still curious to see if the black cartridge will last for 1875 pages as advertised)
    -Very quiet and fast (has an optional quiet mode that is quite innovative)
    -Was very easy to set up (especially on the Wireless Network)
    -Software package is quite good
    -The front tray automatically pops out when printing (which is always fun to watch!)
    -Great scanning and copying quality
    -The Auto Duplex Feature
    -Numerous Copying Features, including double sided copying
    -Looks very sleek and stylish
    -Lets you print pictures from your mobile phone
    -Good size LCD Screen

    Disadvantages:
    -Paper Tray could have a higher storage capacity
    -The back cassette/feeder feels a bit flimsy
    -The black glossy bit on the printer gets very dusty/easily smudged
    -Menu could be a bit more advanced (but it's more than adequate)

    Haven't Tested Yet
    -Photo printing quality
    -longevity of the ink cartridges

    Overall, great printer! I was one of the lucky ones who bought it for £144 on Amazon when it first came out!

    Wireless5
    had some issues setting up the wireless on my Mac,
    but after downloading the latest drivers from the Canon website - it picked it up straight away.
    that was my only frustration & i am so glad it was resolved so easily without the need for cables.

    having used the printer for a week,
    its great!
    photo printing is superb.
    document printing - the double sided option is wonderful.
    its neat & tidy plus it looks & feels well made,
    not like its gonna fall to pieces while printing.

    as you can tell i am very pleased with this product,
    i spent a good 2 months looking for the perfect printer (wireless preferred) & this is the best of the bunch.
    spend the extra - you won't be disappointed.

    Canon Pixma MP6405
    I'm very impressed - it was easy to set up, everything works as it should, the software is good and the photo quality is excellent. Printing on CDs and DVDs is a little fiddly, but that's the worst I can say. It's worth paying a little more for the overall quality, networking and duplexing: I've had a look at some of the cheaper devices, and they're noisy clunkers, with tiny (and expensive) ink cartridges.